Republicans like to say that Barack Obama’s 2008 slogan ‘Hope’ has been replaced by ‘Fear’. And they are right. If you listen to Obama and his campaign paladins, you might think that Mitt Romney, the Republican nominee is itching to take away your Medicare and break the sacred American promise of Social Security. Hell, a Romney presidency means you are more likely to get cancer. Or if you are a woman, you’ll probably die due to complications from an illegal back-street abortion. Everything will be lame again, like the 1950s. Vote Obama, or else.
At the Democratic convention this week, President Obama will tell his supporters that he still believes that, together, he can change America. He may be a little older, wiser, his hair a little greyer (chuckle), but he sill believes that politics can transcend Washington’s partisan squabbles. He won’t tell the truth: he’s all but abandoned his liberal idealism, and his campaign is not about politics or ‘reaching across the aisle’.
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